wraithkiss

Ok so first off I had to be up by 8am for the plumber to be here because the outside spiggot/faucet on the corner of my house was damaged when they replaced my sewer line last week. So he's here a couple minutes early and gets started, and realizes I need the city to come out and turn the water off, since I dont have a main line shut off valve for the house. So I call the city and they send someone out from the city to turn the water line off to the house. In the mean time Roto Rooter calls and sends a mini manager out to inspect my claim about the line being damaged, which just seemed pretty silly since its a minor outside repair and wasnt a major claim, but then the douchey bastard they sent me was pointing out that the spiggot is run off the water utility so they arent liable for damage of that kind related to the work, and he wasnt completely convinced they did the damage. Him being a moron. So they want to charge me $200 for the work, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the $14k I've already spent, the water is turned off already (which the city charges $44 to have done at the street) and so I bite my fucking lip, agree to the $200 and plan to never do business with them again. By then the solar guy has arrived on site around 9:30am and he gets to work finishing the last smidge of electrical on the house, and the City inspector shows up at 10am on the money to get the solar system inspected. Everything passes fine, and I help the solar installer try to talk the city inspector into installing some solar for himself, and we start to tie up our loose ends. From there the original plumber comes back out, and asks for an update, agrees with me that he could prove reasonably well that damage was done recently etc, and volunteers to do the work for parts only. Major score, we're back in business and Roto Rooter is redeemed with a growly exception for douchey mini manager dude AJ who seemed .... shall we say under trained about how to evaluate what happened at the property. From there original plumber dude fixes one part of the leak, we pull the city guy back out to the hosue to turn the water back on, and it turns out there was another leak below the soil line from when the pipe got hit above ground and broke the connector where it attaches to the water main. So we turn the water back off, send the city guy away, and plumber replaces the next stretch of pipe. We bring the city guy back out and turn the water on, confirm the leaks are finished and now we're wrapping up the last details. In the mean time I'm gonna be a couple hours late for work, so I had to call in for that and hopefully soon I'll be all settled down and finished.

I've had 5 different guys out to the house today. plumber, city water guy, solar installer, douchey fucking mini manager, and city power inspector. that's a lotta traffic for my house in 4 hours. When I come home tonight I'm opening another bottle of wine and passing out.

but solar is installed mutha fuckas! 2.3 KW of power